Luminex High Performance Virtual Tape with HDS Storage
Systems
Solution Overview
When mainframe customers need to replace aging physical tape, tape libraries
or virtual tape disk cache to improve their mainframe tape operations, they
require the latest advancements in high performance, highly available virtual
tape solutions.
Since 2006, mainframe customers have used Luminex Channel Gateway virtual
tape control units with HDS AMS storage systems. AMS storage combines high
performance and capacity with its highly available, No Single Point of Failure
(NSPOF) architecture.
The HDS AMS is the perfect complement to Luminex's enhanced version of its
virtual tape product, Channel Gateway X, the industry’s first control
unit to use 8Gb FICON connectivity to achieve mainframe tape I/O throughput
at wire speed. It has set new performance standards for FICON throughput and
has raised the bar by offering throughput levels that are 3 – 5X faster
than other virtual tape products. Now, mainframe data centers can use fewer
FICON channels, lower cost and achieve higher FICON throughput to improve all
aspects of tape operations
This extraordinary solution with Luminex control units and HDS AMS storage
has combined best of breed products to meet the requirements of mainframe data
centers of all sizes.
Tape workloads for batch processing, HSM and archiving are dramatically improved
by accessing tape data at virtual tape (disk) speed instead of waiting for
slower tape drives or mechanical tape library robotics.
Backup and recovery is improved by compressing data to reduce the storage
used and replicating this tape data electronically over WANs to remote disaster
recovery sites. So the delays and cost associated with physical tape media,
storage, shipping, tape drive and tape library maintenance is eliminated.
Data Sheets
Typical Channel Gateway disaster recovery configuration with HDS Enterprise Storage
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